The Flip - compact video recorder

www.theflip.com

Our friend and talented country singer Rockie Lynne (http://rockielynne.com/) was nice enough to give us a Flip Video Ultra Player on a recent trip to Nashville (thanks Rockie!). This cool little device (sells for about $150) takes an hour worth of video in the form of an mpeg4 avi file.

The model we were given has 2 gigs of memory, takes up to 60 minutes of video, has a 1.5" lcd screen (528x132 pixels), captures video at 640x480 at 30 frames per second, has a microphone and speaker for audio capture and playback, works on 2 AA batteries, and has a built-in pop-up USB plug (means no card readers or cables :) ). Doug plans on keeping this baby in his camera bag to document photoshoots on the road. It is so compact!